If you're feeling a bit stuck in a situation that seems like it won't resolve itself then try this quick stress reduction technique to help bolster you when things get too much. Remember everything changes and flows.Let me know if it helps or you have any questions

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Healthy Life Centre is a spacious place of calm amidst the buzz of Bread Street in the City Centre. People often comment on feeling more relaxed just by coming through the door! I've been practicing Shiatsu from Heathly Life Centre for three years plus (as well as previously from the lovely bijou Edinburgh Shiatsu Clinic). If you haven't nurtured yourself in a while, book in for a Shiatsu special offer until the end of October 2015 - keep reading.

Most of my clients bring along a creak, usually in their neck or shoulders. Tension is often most noticeable in the top part of our bodies - the part we use for smiling, talking, shouting, hugging, frowning, throwing punches (or just wanting to do so anyway). I now offer longer 90 min sessions to de-tense and unclench this area (and the rest of you!). Get a 20% discount till 31 October 2015 (discount code OpenDay). Book here

Relaxing and being aware of your body (as you might be in a Shiatsu session or similar) has its own side-effect - the aches that have faded into perception background suddenly get a spotlight, as do emotions and thoughts we keep well hidden. I am certainly not the only person who has experienced feeling like EVERYTHING in my body is tense, achy and just plain WRONG at the start of a Shiatsu or a massage treatment. This is the start of the process of resolving/ transforming these stale states of being into a healthier you, but it can be a bit of a shock.

I feel so fortunate to be working from Meadowlark Yoga - it's full of positive open people and is dedicated to life of health, vitality and balance on every level. I can't help but smile every time I go in either to work or to a yoga class. Would you like to come along on a wee tour? I'll tell you about the new place and tempt you to visit with two offers along the way. To see my working days and prices please read my page . You can also book online.

Overall, I ate carefully to be sure I was getting the right vitamins/nutrients.Within 2 weeks my chronically dry (from an early age) skin had all but cleared up and my hair was lustrous enough to elicit compliments. These unexpected changes were motivation enough to continue! Other changes I noticed:

I was far far less thirsty, and no longer woke up in the morning with a horrible dry mouth.

Weight dropped off (even though I’d had to stop running in 2009 so wasn’t really taking exercise).

My bowels regulated; the stomach pains went away.

I stopped the regimen eventually as the weight loss didn’t stop. I also suspected that my relationship to food had become a bit ‘weird’, so … I started eating ‘normally’, which meant permitting sugar. What I now noticed was:

My relationship to sugar and sugary food had changed. I could observe a packet of Gingernuts on the table without having to restrain myself from grabbing and eating the lot (full stomach or no).

I didn’t really ‘feel like’ chocolate or sweets any more. I had been a sucker for anything sweet, I was not fussy! Now, I could take them or leave them, and most of the time, I just didn’t feel like eating anything sugary sweet.

What was the cause? I’m not sure. Cutting out sugar eased the pain and helped with other things too. I'll leave it to others to decide whether I was simply vulnerable to sugar cravings; whether the presence of an organism which craved it (such as candida) caused my sugar addiction; or whether there was some other reason altogether. For my part: I felt ill; I listened to my body, did what it seemed to be asking and then I felt better. (End of :-)).

weekends there’d be jam and butter on white bread with a glass of milk in front of Blankety Blank or The Generation Game …

I exercised heavily - lots of running, mostly distance, and other sports too. I filled the between-meals hunger with sweets, especially after I left home at the age of 17.

At a certain point, I noticed that my digestion was a problem. I visited the doctor with stomach pains (it felt like I was bleeding inside) and the initial suggestion was Fybogel for constipation/wind. This didn’t work. My pains grew exponentially; bowel movements were hit and miss. I had had enough. What I did however notice, one particularly painful Christmas, was that when I ate sugary things or alcohol, especially if they were consumed apart from a meal, my stomach immediately went into paroxysms. I knew a friend who had cut out sugar for health reasons, so decided I would follow her lead!

My regime for 6 months was this:

no sugar at all including fruit in any form, no alcohol, no pasta, no bread for 2 weeks

after that, no sugar in any form, no alcohol, no honey, no food containing sugar (so, careful checking of ingredients lists in supermarkets, especially for bread and breakfast cereals with hidden sugar), only very occasionally fruit, fruit juices likewise occasionally and always watered down, little if any pasta/bread

towards the end, the odd glass of red wine (and I might have had a couple of boiled sweets!).

I’m so excited to finally get my website up and out there. This is a new direction for me and has been a labour of love – mind you my web developer Noah Breen did most of the heavy lifting! I do hope you like it.